Comment Re:a hack (Score 2, Insightful) 459
That's a TERRIBLE idea... Like, HOLY SHIT terrible.
Full disk encryption gets my vote as well - Truecrypt will do the job quite nicely, and relatively pain-free.
That's a TERRIBLE idea... Like, HOLY SHIT terrible.
Full disk encryption gets my vote as well - Truecrypt will do the job quite nicely, and relatively pain-free.
orly? Or he could just pop a Flask of Pure Death and chuck some mad fireballs. I'm pretty sure a plane is worth flasking for.
You'd have a point, except for the fact that said over the top fiction is becoming more real every day.
Brilliant plan! Let us untie the hands of police, and give these super-civilians the power to shit all over us peon-civilians to an even larger degree than is already possible. This way, we can eliminate all our violent crime, and replace it with violent justice. But then, there wouldn't really be much of a difference between crime and justice, would there?
Me too - found that place via the Android Market. They have a very excellent app for tracking all kinds of things - calories, exercise, and a huge searchable database of foods. So far, so good.
Well let's just say this study has the potential to stimulate MY package...
Seeing as I actually own a G1, I enjoy the ability to make my interface whatever the hell I want it to be. On the Market alone are several complete Home screen replacement apps, offering a plethora of features including iPhone-style dock bars, skinnability, and more. And once you break out of the one-click comfort zone and check out xda-developers, the opportunities abound. Custom roms, roms for other phones that are ported to the G1, and so much more.
So, the G1 ends up being a delightfully hackable, surprisingly polished platform. Considering Apple has a year's head start on them, the Android platform is doing superbly. Further considering that there are many, many phones on many carriers slated for release that run Android, I'm fairly confident in saying that the platform will be taken to a whole new level this time next year. Once carriers start learning that Android makes them money, they will throw their support behind it, and that'll be the game.
This could actually be really awesome if it's truly production ready. What's that? 100% uptime?! AWRIGHT!
Oh China, you never change...
But oh man, it would have been so hilarious to see what happened to Solid Oak's update servers when the ENTIRE NATION of China hit them at once! I predict flames.
This existed pre-internet. How many bought a diary and wrote one entry? Went out for a run, swim or to the gym once? Read a few pages of War and Peace? Only went to one foreign language lesson? Only bothered with a couple of piano/guitar/trumpet lessons?
While twitter has many problems, the fact that the majority of people tend to play with a new thing and then stop isn't new, or news.
Story of my life...
"Get Some" which Apple execs were rumored to have yelled at rival Palm execs while squeezing their junk.
Best.
Comment.
Ever.
Mod parent up!
Which would you pick, Slashdot - a (creepy) guy getting his rocks off to a simulation, or the real thing? Ban the simulation out of existence, then tell me what's left.
Well, I was kind of thinking fractals when I said that, but okay.
.. to become a rigorous engineering discipline. It's not quite there yet. I am not convinced that it ever will be. Writing software is a creative process, arguably even an artistic one. Well understood rules can be followed, provably correct algorithms applied, formal design methods used, but it is still a human creative process, and as such, I suspect inherently non-rigorous.
Computer Science compared to Software Engineering?
Think aeronautics. The science of aeronautics ponders the laws of aerodynamics and the laws of flight.
Engineering aeronautics is all about building the damn aircraft.
As a senior in a software engineering major, I tend to agree. While there are any number of methods, design tools/patterns, and whatnot to help me do my job, in the end it is my own ideas and styles that define the product. There's certainly an element of artistry to it - a small block of recursion that accomplishes something horribly complex is just... beautiful.
Another thing that contributes to its non-rigor is the domain knowledge requirement. I can't effectively build a system unless I understand (at least at a high level) how it works. Each industry has its own specialties and levels of difficulty, and you can't teach all of that in school, so they teach us how to think and learn instead. They give us ways of understanding the problems we need to solve, and that's really what we do - solve problems.
I program, therefore I am.
